From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: Mass-Hardlinking Oops Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:07:54 +0000 Message-ID: <824oq3eppx.fsf@mid.bfk.de> References: <4A74401B.90801@mccme.ru> <20090803145741.GC3765@think> <4A76FB78.5000207@wpkg.org> <20090803235920.C13173@mccme.ru> <87my3y3r8u.fsf@faran.nsc.liu.se> <3d0408630910111543t23bdf6c3u2274efc65f0fe06c@mail.gmail.com> <4AD2E3CF.6080701@wpkg.org> <20091012124726.GL2632@think> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: Tomasz Chmielewski , "Yan\, Zheng " , =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E4r?= Andersson , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Mason Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20091012124726.GL2632@think> (Chris Mason's message of "Mon\, 12 Oct 2009 08\:47\:26 -0400") List-ID: * Chris Mason: >> Of course, not necessarily right now, but when you introduce some >> other changes needing disk format change, please think of removing >> the hard link limit as well. > > Please keep in mind this is only a limit on the number of links to a > single file where the links and the file are all in the same director= y. So to work around this limit, I could do something like this? mkdir tmp.$$ ln a tmp.$$/b ln tmp.$$/b . rm tmp.$$/b rmdir tmp.$$ (Instead of "ln a b".) What am I missing? --=20 =46lorian Weimer BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstra=DFe 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html